Moldable MRI breast coil: August 2011- A moldable MRI breast coil was under development according to the notice I received from my Google alerts. Currently, we know that MRI breast coils are designed to be placed on the MRI scanning table, with the patient lying prone and the breasts dangling down into the MRI breast coil. With the size of some women being rather large, not all women will fit into the MRI scanner while lying prone on the...

Optimizing Breast MRI Breast MRI imaging offers an opportunity for a radiology practice to differentiate itself. By Catherine Leyen, ARRT(R)(MR)(CV) (*This Optimizing Breast MRI article appeared in the March Issue of Advance Magazine for Imaging.  One of the goals of this information was to present to reading breast radiologists that the national average for breast mri is five to six percent of their mammography volume. ) Just a few years...

Would you believe the youngest breast cancer patient is 4 years old? Not only have I sometimes heard complaints from medical staff when exams are ordered to be performed on the elderly, but worse yet, I have heard complaints when they are ordered on children. “Why are we working on this person?” is the usual statement I’ve heard, but I want to say to those health care workers who work on the elderly and the very young, you...

BRCA1 BRCA2 and the MRI Exam go hand in hand if you have any family history of breast cancer. BRCA1 and BRCA2 (pronounced “brakka1″ and “brakka2″) genes are hereditary indicators belonging to tumor suppressors.  These genes can mutate and become known as hereditary breast or ovarian cancer. BRCA1 BRCA2 and the MRI Exam: A woman’s (or man’s) risk for developing breast cancers at an early stage (...

MD Anderson shares value of Breast MRI exam by creating and endorsing a YouTube Video. Respected Cancer fighters MD Anderson out of Houston Texas are endorsing the mammogram in combination with breast MRI exam as early detection for surviving breast cancer. Early detection means early resection through either biopsy or surgery, which results in much higher statistics for survival. MD Anderson Cancer Center produced a video for the patient...

Breast Cancer review for the patient perspective is courtesy of Wake Radiology, and Dr. Glenn Coates, MS, MD. In the video below, he shares his passion and information about breast cancer.  While this video is labeled Breast MRI from the patient perspective, the video is only 9 1/2 minutes long and does not allow the opportunity for Dr. Coates to review the value of MRI breast exams. Please watch and learn, become informed and make wise...

Open MRI of the breast: Baton Rouge Radiology group adds breast MRI to practice in the form of a large bore high field open 1.5T mri scanner.  Many women who might not fit into the smaller standard size mri systems, may be steered to search a facility that has an Espree large bore open mri of the breast program available to them. More centers are using magnetic resonance imaging as part of their practice for early detection in breast...